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Dear Timetabler,

Timetabling -- A Timetabler's CookBook

This new book is a complete guide to every aspect of timetabling and its principles.
 
Whether you use a computer program (TimeTabler, SIMS Nova T6, Facility-Scheduler, etc),
or you schedule manually, it is important to understand the underlying timetabling principles.
This book explains those principles.
It will help you to timetable more effectively and efficiently.

It is ESSENTIAL reading for:
	Experienced timetablers who are looking for ways to streamline their timetabling,
	New timetablers, who want complete guidance from A to Z,
	Heads and other staff who wish to have a clear understanding of the language and the processes of timetabling.

This new book is 232 pages in full colour, with over 200 illustrations, and a CD of supporting files.

To see the full Contents and view Sample Pages:
	Click on: http://www.timetabler.com/book.html
	Or see the list below.

To Order this Book (with the CD):
	To pay by cheque, or to be invoiced, click for an Order Form : http://www.timetabler.com/PDFs/OrderForm-Book.pdf
	Or pay by credit card at http://www.timetabler.com/paypal-book.html

Best wishes for your 2009 timetable,

TimeTabler Support Team

The Contents of the Timetabler's CookBook
For a 4-page PDF of the Full Contents list, click on: http://www.timetabler.com/BookFiles/contentsofbook.pdf

Chapter 1.    Timetabling
A flow chart of timetabling
A timetable of timetabling

Chapter 2.    Planning the Curriculum
Curriculum notation
Diagrams of 22 Curriculum structures
Vertical curriculum design; diplomas
Managing change : the effect of innovations 
Managing change : practical ways forward
Managing change : changing the timetable cycle.
Visit http://www.timetabler.com/book.html to download some sample pages.

Chapter 3.    Option Schemes
Types of option blocks; advantages
Methods of determining the option blocks
‘Sixth Form’ options : Years 12 and 13

Chapter 4.    Schematic Diagrams
Checking for impossibilities in your structure
Five worked examples.
Visit http://www.timetabler.com/book.html to download some sample pages.

Chapter 5.    Staff Deployment Analysis
Contact ratio; curriculum bonuses
The Staffing Equation; Worked examples

Chapter 6.    Collecting the data
The Curriculum Audit Form
The Staff Loading Chart
Using the spreadsheets that are included on the CD

Chapter 7.    Timetable test 1 - The Combing Chart
The Principle of Compatibility
Drawing a Combing Chart; Worked examples.
Visit http://www.timetabler.com/book.html to download some sample pages.

Chapter 8.    Timetable test 2 - The Conflict Matrix
Find impossibilities in your teacher-teams
Principles and worked examples

Chapter 9.    Timetable test 3 - Accommodation
The rooming fraction
Priorities; Worked examples

Chapter 10.    Other timetable checks
Zarraga’s Rule
Deciding priorities
Solving problems

Chapter 11.    Scheduling
Five timetable models
Ten rules for scheduling
Nine tactics and moves
When something won’t fit, what do I do?
Allowing for different period-breakdowns
Improving the quality
Order of scheduling; Worked examples
Rooming, Dealing with specialist rooms
Checking the timetable
Printing and Publishing your timetable
What printouts are needed? For whom?
How do you know if it is getting close to impossible?
Alternative timetable structures

Chapter 12.    Scheduling ‘Sixth Forms’
Curriculum Diagrams for Years 12, 13
The idea of ‘spread’; Looking for more flexibility
Small and large Sixth Forms
When something won’t fit, what do I do?
Visit http://www.timetabler.com/book.html to download some sample pages.

Chapter 13.    Block timetabling
‘Consistent blocking’
Block scheduling in Scotland

Chapter 14.    Scheduling in Primary Schools
Balance, and the Timing of subjects,
The structure of the timetable

Chapter 15.    Timetabling by Computer
What to look for in a timetabling program
The 4 steps in timetabling software
What can timetabler software do for you?
Exporting the completed timetable to your MIS

Chapter 16.    Doing the daily Cover for absent staff
Using Cover software

Appendices
A timetable of timetabling
A flowchart for curriculum planning and timetabling
Who should do the timetable?
21 curriculum formulae
Glossary of timetabling terms
How to use the CD

Index

 For a 4-page PDF of the Full Contents list, click on: http://www.timetabler.com/BookFiles/contentsofbook.pdf
 

 
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